As human species, we are currently facing up a turning point of humanity. It is generated by the economic crisis, which we entitled, like other authors, the global crisis of development. It is caused by humans in their race for competition with no limits and responsibility towards the future,...

In our world the large amount of existing data and the need to convert and analyze this large amount of useful data has led to the concept of data mining. Using data mining techniques is driven by the urgent need, common to many fields, to store, access, describe, model, and especially to...

Regarding the culture of bees and bee products, our country has a long tradition, representing an occupation since ancient times. Currently, under globalization, where all products must be more competitive, organic beekeeping acquires new traits, its main objective being to obtain the best...

Our paper aims to establish a referential framework for optimal management of forestry accounting knowledge, in order to develop an intelligent system for forest accounting units. In our approach we pointed out advantages of using intelligent systems in accounting, and established forest...

Abstract Respecting environmental constrains has a long history in humans’ behavior and contributed in the development of the value systems that guide our behavior. In the last decades, these constrains are somehow differently shaped and understood since humans’ technological capacity...

The LIFE programme was adopted in 1992 to support the implementation of Community policy and legislation in the field of the environment. For period 2007-2013 the ney financial instrument is LIFE + has as objective to contribute to the development, implementation and updating of Community...

Ensuring environmental protection is one of the three pillars of sustainable development. Identifying the factors that lead to enterprise financial performance must take into consideration environmental factors. Research in the field showed an increasing importance of such factors in obtaining...

Changes in the environment alone will not result in conflict. They need to be combined with existing divisions within society, be they ethnic, nationalist or religious. Any change in the environment may affect the global economy, even if the environmentally caused conflicts might not be so clear...

In the context of the accentuation of the negative impact of human activity on the environment, the energy efficiency issue becomes more and more important. The European Union has developed a package of policy measures in the field of energy in which energy efficiency is seen as a key that can...

While numerous criticisms of economic theory and thought have been expressed over time, ecological critiques of economics are relatively new in broader discourse, becoming more prevalent in the past thirty to forty years. But ecological economics has historical roots as long and deep as any...